According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors Chandrashekaraiah, Karthik (San Francisco, CA, US); Gervais, Tristan Pierre (Sunnyvale, CA, US); Jain, Vishal (Santa Clara, CA, US); Kumar, Anshuman (San Francisco, CA, US); Madonia, Nathan Elio (Mountain View, CA, US); Plummer, William George (London, GB), filed on August 10, 2023, was made available online on February 15, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Cleaning robots can execute simple environment navigation and can perform actions like sweeping, mopping, and dust removal in various settings. However, due to the varying requirements of different cleaning tasks, cleaning robots tend to be specially designed to perform only one cleaning task. As a result, users require several different purpose-built cleaning robots to fully clean their spaces. Having separate cleaning robots for sweeping and mopping takes up extra power, and extra space in a user’s home or office area. Combining the various cleaning functionalities into one system leads to complicated system interactions and issues like height discrepancies between different cleaning modes, need to secure systems into appropriate positions, additional possibilities for component loss or component jamming, and solutions for removing both wet and dry debris from a floor surface without causing system clogs.”
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